Whose Pride? LGBT ‘Community’ and the Organization of Pride Parades in Serbia

Bilić, Bojan

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-48093-4_9

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“…The presented findings also have important implications for the Europeanisation of LGBT rights literature. Similar to the work of Bilić (2016a;2016b), the article has challenged the prevailing notion that the EU accession process has been a force of good for post-Yugoslav…”

Section: The Co-optation and Militarisation Of Pridementioning

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The litmus test of pride: analysing the emergence of the Belgrade “Ghost” pride in the context of EU accession

Slootmaeckers

2017

East European Politics

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The transformation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights into a 'standard for civilisation' has not been without consequences. With LGBT Pride parades becoming a symbol for Europeanness in the European Union (EU) accession process, this article asks how the litmus test character of Belgrade Pride has transformed LGBT politics in Serbia. Empirically, the analysis provides an in-depth analysis of how Serbia's EU accession process has shaped the politics of Belgrade Pride between 2001 and 2015 and vice versa. It is argued that the international symbolic usage of Pride is no innocent practice as it has foreclosed its local politicality. Indeed, whilst Belgrade Pride became politicised as a litmus test in the EU accession process, domestically it developed into an apolitical ritualised event devoid of LGBT politics.

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Section: The Co-optation and Militarisation Of Pridementioning

confidence: 92%

The litmus test of pride: analysing the emergence of the Belgrade “Ghost” pride in the context of EU accession

Slootmaeckers

2017

East European Politics

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“…Vučić is, in a patriarchal Weltanschauung, described as a "real man", while those who stand against him are dubbed "bisexuals". This connects to the still present patriarchal mores within the Serbian societies, that tend to see excessive masculinity as positive, and anything other than heterosexuality as negative (Dumančić & Krolo, 2017;Halpern, Kaser, & Wagner, 1996;Kaser, 1992), as there is a "strong patriarchy, which still characterizes the Serbian sociopolitical context" (Bilić, 2016). Furthermore, the moment in which it is claimed that the author joined "Vučić's party" -i.e.…”

Section: Ubermensch Discoursementioning

confidence: 95%

“You’re Simply the Best”: Communicating Power and Victimhood in Support of President Aleksandar Vučić in the Serbian Dailies Alo! and Informer

Jovanović¹

2018

JMR

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Since the recent slew of anti-democratic developments on a worldwide scale, from the onset of the xenophobic crisis in Europe to the election of president Donald Trump, scholarly interest in the Western Balkans has waned significantly. Yet new developments have unraveled in Serbia since 2012 and the coming into power of the 1990s warmonger, Aleksandar Vučić. During his now six year reign, the country has fallen into disarray, with the stifling of the freedom of the press, increased poverty, an intense brain drain, and a number of bizarre affairs in which Aleksandar Vučić's collaborators are often involved. His method of governance has shown to be intrinsically linked to the media, especially dailies that have been, for years, framing him as both being a type of Ubermensch, extremely competent, strong and efficient, while at the same time developing a victimhood narrative, via which he is painted as under constant attack, as well as a victim of numerous attempts on his life. From a methodological standpoint of media content analysis, through the theoretical lenses of discursive deception theory (and other relevant media-related theoretical standpoints), this article analyzes the discourses of the Alo! and the Informer, the two most prominent dailies that support Serbia's ruler, Aleksandar Vučić, looking into how they communicate power to their readership.

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“…Husakouskaya, 2019; see also e.g. Dahl, 2012;Gabowska, 2012;Koobak and Marling, 2014;Bilić, 2016a;2016b;Butterfield, 2016), ultimately entrenching the mechanism of racial displacement. 22…”

Section: Invoking a Developmental Temporalitymentioning

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“…While the bulk of this academic commentary focuses on CEE countries in EU negotiating processes (see e.g. Ayoub, 2013;Ayoub and Paternotte, 2014;Bilić, 2016b), or on 5 The empirical study includes interviews, participant observations and various documents, mainly transgender archive material from the Ukrainian LGBT organization Insight. The fieldwork was conducted between January 2014 and October 2015 in Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania.…”

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Europeanization as Civilizational Transition from East to West

Gressgård

Husakouskaya

2020

Intersections

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Drawing on an empirical study of gender and sexuality politics in Ukraine, this article interrogates the civilizational and yet unspoken racialization that characterizes Europeanization projects in the context of EU enlargement. Its point of departure is that the boundaries of Europeanness coincide with the boundaries of whiteness in a civilizational frame. It argues that Europeanization involves more than merely the influence of EU policies and values on non-member states, simultaneously marking and unmarking civilizational whiteness. Europeanness is, in this meaning, a quintessential racialized identity marker, even as racial whiteness is unmarked as a ‘natural’ adjacency of the West. This dual mechanism is discussed in terms of racial displacement. More specifically, the article foregrounds how racialized power relations intersect with – while at the same time being obscured by – political instrumentalization of sexual rights and freedoms in ‘transitioning’ processes in Ukraine.

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Whose Pride? LGBT ‘Community’ and the Organization of Pride Parades in Serbia

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

The litmus test of pride: analysing the emergence of the Belgrade “Ghost” pride in the context of EU accession

The litmus test of pride: analysing the emergence of the Belgrade “Ghost” pride in the context of EU accession

“You’re Simply the Best”: Communicating Power and Victimhood in Support of President Aleksandar Vučić in the Serbian Dailies Alo! and Informer

Europeanization as Civilizational Transition from East to West

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